Parker Shipton

Parker Shipton is Professor of Anthropology and African Studies, Boston University. He has served as president of the Association for Africanist Anthropology. Some of his publications include Bitter Money (American Anthropological Association,1989) , The Nature of Entrustment (Yale University Press, 2007) which won the Herskovits Prize, and Mortgaging the Ancestors: Credit between Cultures (Yale University Press, 2009).

Parker Shipton is Professor of Anthropology and African Studies, Boston University. He has served as president of the Association for Africanist Anthropology. Some of his publications include Bitter Money (American Anthropological Association,1989) , The Nature of Entrustment (Yale University Press, 2007) which won the Herskovits Prize, and Mortgaging the Ancestors: Credit between Cultures (Yale University Press, 2009). See less